GoAnimate4school: Corda's Students Practice Speaking Italian After Class

June 5, 2015

Italian Instructor Giorgio Corda Presents at the ASSETT 2015 Teaching Symposium Giorgio Corda, CU Boulder Italian Language Instructor, enrolled in the CU ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar in Fall 2014. With the support of the ASSETT Seminar, Corda made a plan to incorporate GoAnimate4school virtual conversation activities into several Italian...

Groupboard Virtual Whiteboard Connects Long Distance Students in Spanbauer's Class

May 29, 2015

Scott Spanbauer in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Department implemented Groupboard Virtual Whiteboard to connect with long distance students. Teaching and Learning Challenge My language teaching techniques are based are the communicative process--­­how human beings negotiate interpersonal communication through speaking, listening, reading and writing, and through this negotiation process,...

BFA Theatre and Dance Applicants Submit Materials through DocuSign

May 29, 2015

Theatre and Dance Associate Professor Chip Persons implemented DocuSign to support Bachelor of Fine Arts students' development of professional portfolios. Teaching and Learning Challenge Pedagogical Problem or Opportunity I teach in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in Performance in the Department of Theatre & Dance. This is a conservatory­-style...

Women, Gender Studies Purchases Laptops, Software with ASSETT Development Award

May 8, 2015

CU Boulder Women and Gender Studies students tell women's stories with equipment purchased through ASSETT Development Awards. Associate Professor Celeste Montoya's Spring 2015 senior colloquium class created the Feminists of the Front Range project. Montoya's students recorded interviews with self-identified feminists in the Boulder area. Montoya said that students, ".....

Gladstone's Digital Commons in Wordpress Supports Students' Engagement with Texts

May 6, 2015

CU Boulder Department of English Instructor Jason Gladstone enrolled in ASSETT's Spring 2015 Teaching with Technology Seminar to learn how to better support his students' engagement with texts in their Contemporary Environmental Literature and Media course. Gladstone created a Digital Commons space in Wordpress for his students to explicate various...

3rd Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium

May 6, 2015

Jim Groom Presents at the 2015 ASSETT Teaching with Tech Symposium "Digital Agency in the 21st Century," was the theme at the Third Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium in April. The Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and Adjunct Professor at the University of Mary Washington,...

Low Stakes Assessments Encourage Heisler's Human Anatomy Students

May 6, 2015

Low stakes assessments encourage students in Integrative Physiology Senior Instructor Ruth Heisler’s Human Anatomy class. Heisler created the assessments through support from the ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. Watch her explain her tactic in her video below. Teaching and Learning Challenge Human Anatomy is historically viewed as a memorization course...

Kinney Shows Simulations to Support Understanding of Sound

May 4, 2015

Last fall, students nominated Physics Professor Ed Kinney for an ASSETT Award of Excellence for Outstanding Teacher for Technology in Teaching in Physics 1240 Sound and Music. Students wrote that the PhET simulations and YouTube videos that Kinney showed in class supported their learning of complex Physics concepts. In their...

Students Create Public Service Announcements in Kunce's Writing Class

April 2, 2015

Catherine Kunce’s first year writing students create their own Public Service Announcement videos. Kunce, a CU Boulder Program for Writing and Rhetoric Senior Instructor, planned this feature of her course with the support of the Fall 2014 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. Watch Kunce discuss her project here: Teaching and...

Students Make Climate Change Films Thanks to ASSETT Development Award

March 17, 2015

Evolutionary and Ecological Biology Associate Professor Rebecca Safran used an ASSETT Development Award last year to purchase and refurbish equipment for her Film and Climate Change class at CU Boulder. Safran's students created an online exhibit project in their Film and Climate Change class. In the course, students are asked...

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